Select Lecture Series at CSHL

Dorcas Cummings Lectures

A special community lecture associated with the CSHL Symposium was established in 1978. It was named in honor of Dorcas Cummings, an enthusiastic member of the Long Island Biological Association for over 20 years. Cummings’ untimely death in 1976 inspired generous donations to the Laboratory in her memory from her family and friends.

Barbara McClintock lecture series

Barbara McClintock lecture series started in 2015 – this initiative secures two slots each year (out of ~15 total for CSHL) for WiSE to co-host lectures from rising women stars in academia.
March 18, 2021 – Joan Brugge
March 4, 2021 – Miriam Merad
December 5, 2019 – Angelika Amon
February 28, 2019 – Ana C. Anderson
December 13, 2018 – Elaine Fuchs
February 22, 2018 – Caroline Dean
January 11, 2018 – Kristi S. Anseth
March 17, 2017 – Carol Greider
January 26, 2017 – Leslie Vosshall
February 2, 2016 – Ann Graybiel

Lorraine Grace Lectureship

2013: Paul A. Offit, M.D., Chief, Section of Infectious Diseases and Direc-tor, Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Maurice R. Hilleman Professor of Vaccinology, Professor of Pediatrics at University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Alternative Medicine: Sense and Nonsense.2013 Lorraine Grace lectureship on societal issues of biomedical research.

2014: November 4–Lynn Pasquerella, Ph.D., President, Mount Holyoke College. Lecture: 2014 Lor-raine Grace Lecture on societal issues of biomedical research: “Is Death Un- American

2015: October 13—Peter Neufeld, Co-founder and Co-director of the Innocence Project; How the
Lessons of DNA Transform Criminal Justice, 2015 Lorraine Grace lectureship on societal issues of
biomedical research.

2016: November 6: Philip R. Reilly, M.D., J.D., Author, geneticist, and former president of the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics: EUGENICS: A Historical Perspective. This was a 2016 Lorraine Grace lectureship on societal issues of biomedical research.

2017: November 5: Jonathan Weiner, Pulitzer prize–winning author and Maxwell M. Geffen, Professor of Medical and Scientific Journalism, Columbia Journalism School: LONG FOR THIS WORLD—Writing about Immortality … and Other Controversial Topics in the Science of Life; 2017 Lorraine Grace lectureship on societal issues of biomedical research.

2018: October 23: Public lecture, Genetic Privacy: Friend or Foe? 2018 Lorraine Grace lectureship on societal issues of biomedical research. Yaniv Erlich, Ph.D., chief science officer, MyHeritage, associate professor of Computer Science, Columbia University [leave of absence], adjunct core member, New York Genome Center.

2019: October 6: Public Lecture: Diversity, ethnicity and cancer. Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, MD, FACP Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics Director, Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics & Global Health University of Chicago Medicine

2020: The 2020 Lorraine Grace lectureship on societal issues of biomedical research is presented as part our virtual Live at the Lab webinar series. SOCIAL CONSCIENCE Evolutionary origins and Brain Mechanisms Date: Monday, November 2, 2020 Time: 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Speaker: PATRICIA CHURCHLAND Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego and Adjunct Professor at the Salk Institute, Pat holds degrees from Oxford University, the University of Pittsburg and the University of British Columbia. She has been awarded the MacArthur Prize, The Rossi Prize for Neuroscience and the Prose Prize for Science. She has authored multiple pioneering books, her most recent being Conscience. She has served as President of the American Philosophical Association and the Society for Philosophy and Psychology. Pat lives in Solana Beach, California, with her husband Paul, a neurophilosopher, and their labradoodle Millie. They have two children, Anne and Mark, both neuroscientists.

1997 Lloyd Harbor Seminars (public)
Mary-Claire King, professor in the Division of Medical Genetics at the University of Washington in Seattle, “Breast Cancer Update.” Dr. King, professor in the Division of Medical Genetics at the University of Washington in Seattle
October, Dr. Svante Paablo, Professor of General Biology at University of Munich, presented a lecture entitled “DNA, Neandertals, and Us.”

Cancer Lecture Series (public)

1998

March – Richard D. Klausner,M.D., director of the National Cancer Institut. Current status of cancer research

1999

The Laboratory hosted a series of four public lectures about cancer given by four of the country’s leading cancer specialists.
March 10 – Richard D. Klausner,M.D., director of the National Cancer Institute. “The War Against Cancer: Where Has Science Brought Us and Where are We Going?”
Oct 12 – Douglas Hanahan, Ph.D., of the University of California at San Francisco. “The Conspiracy of Cancer Cells.”
Oct 19 – Neil Caporaso, M.D., of the National Cancer Institute and was entitled “Cracking the Causes of Cancer: What We Know; What We Don’t Know.”
October 26 – Mark Pegram, M.D., Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of California at Los Angeles, speaking about “Targeted Therapy for Breast Cancer.”

1999 Special Public Lectures

Sept 26 – We hosted a public lecture sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund (WVVF)in Grace Auditorium. The president of WWF, Kathryn S. Fuller, talked about “A Living Planet for the next Millennium.”
May 20 – Lloyd Harbor Seminars with a lecture by John Coraor of the Heckscher Museum in nearby Huntington entitled “The Lives and Works of Arthur Dove and Helen Torr.”

Neuroscience Lecture Series (public)

2000

This year, the Laboratory continued a series of public education lectures by hosting its first Neuroscience Lecture Series. The three public lectures attracted more than 900 visitors to Grace Auditorium.
Nov 14 – Dr. Michael Merzenich, titled “Training Strategies for Brain Illnesses and Disabilities in Children.” Dr. Merzenich is the Francis A. Sooy Professor of Otolaryngology at the Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences at the University of California, San Francisco.
Nov 21 – Dr. Charles F. Stevens, a professor from The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences. Dr. Stevens’ lecture was titled “Synapses: The Neural InformationHighway.”
Nov 28 – Dr. Larry Squire, Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at the University of California School of Medicine in San Diego. Dr. Squire’s lecture, held November 28, was titled “Memory Systems of the Brain.”

2000 Special Public Lectures

June 26 – Viviana Risca, the 2000 winner of the IntelScience Talent Search, and Laura F. Landweber, an assistant professor at Princeton University, for a special public lecture on “DNA Games: From Computing to Espionage.”
October 28 – Phillip Valentine Tobias, Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, presented a special public lecture titled “Humanity’sCradle: 75 Years of Evolutionary Studies in Africa.” As part of a special Halloween program,”Bones and Strings,” Dr. Tobias lectured on his research of the human biology of the peoples of Southern Africa.

2001 Harbor Lecture Series

The first lecture was given by Dr. Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, on May 8. Dr. Collins’s ecture, “Medical and Societal Consequences of the Human Genome Project,” was well attended and much enjoyed. On May 21, John Coffin, Ph.D., the Director of the HIV Drug Resistance Program at the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society Research Professor at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, delivered a lecture titled “HIV: Can This Disease Be Controlled or Cured?” The timely topic was fascinating for all participants. The final lecture, delivered on September10, was by Jeffrey M. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D., a professor at The Rockefeller University in New York and an investigator for the Howard Francis Collins Hughes Medical Institute. Dr. Friedman addressed the audience about weight and body mass in an appealing lecture titled, “Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Body Weight.

2002 Harbor Lecture Series

After a successful first year, the Harbor Lecture Series doubled in size, featuring a total of six lectures this year, and proved it would become an annual favorite at the Laboratory.
May 5 Michael Ruse, the Lucy le T. Werkmeist Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University: “Can a Darwinian be a Christian?-The Relationship between Science and Religion.”

May 14 Dr. Chung S. Yang, Professor at the Laboratory for Cancer Research at Rutgers and the Director of the Carcinogenesis and Prevention Program at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey: “Beneficial Health Effects of Tea: Evidence, Myth, and Perspectives.”

May 20 Elof Axel Carlson, Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology at Stony Brook University: “Eugenics: When Science and Society Go Astray.”

June 14 Steven M. Block, a biophysicist at Stanford University; Christopher Chyba, co-director of Stanford’s Center for International Security; and Edward M. Scolnick, CSHL Trustee and President of Merck Research Laboratories, and Executive Vice President for Science and Technology for Merck & Company, Inc.: “Bioterrorism: Protecting Our Country, Protecting Ourselves.”

October 1 Dr. Cynthia Kenyon, the Herbert Boyer Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco: “Genetics of Aging and Longevity: The Search for the Fountain of Youth.”

October 8 Scott Lowe, CSHL Deputy Director of the Cancer Center: “Cancer: Mission Possible.”

2003 The Double Helix 50th Anniversary Cultural Series

This year’s lectures, part of The Double Helix 50th Anniversary Cultural Series, focused on the practical uses of the double helix and how it has benefited humanity for the past 50years.

April 27 David Gallo, director of special projects, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: Origins-Evolution Destiny: Clues from the Deepest Sea.
May 5 Oliver Sacks, renowned neurologist and best-selling author of Uncle Tungsten and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Oliver Sacks: A Life of Science
May 12 Barry Scheck, founder, The Innocence Project at Cardozo Law School: Barry Scheck: The DNA Defender.
May 27 Eric Lander, one of the principal leaders of the Human Genome Project: Eric Lander: Living in a Genomic World.
September 21 Tim Tully, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory neuroscientist, and Suzanne Nalbantian, C.W. Post English pro fessor: A Composition of Memory: From Literature to the Brain
October 7Robert Shaler, director of forensic biology for the Medical Examiner’s office of New York City: Questions Answered: DNA Identification at the World Trade Center.

2004 Public Lectures

April 19 Mark Hallett, Vice President of the American Academy of Neurology: How Your Brain Recovers from a Stroke.
May 11 Vincent Li, Director of the Angiogenesis Foundation: Prevention and Reversal of Skin Cancer and Other Skin Diseases.
May 18 Carter Burwell, award-winning composer: From Cold Spring Harbor to the Coen Brothers: A Composer’s Journey.
May 24 Andrew Solomon, award-winning author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlasof Depression: Depression Too, Is a Thing with Feathers.
Sept. 28 Zach Mainen, CSHL Associate Professor, and Sharron McCarthy, Director of the Society of Wine Educators: Demystifying the Sommelier: The Art and Science of Wine Tasting.
October 5 Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind: Genius, Madness, Recovery.
December 7 Richard Stone, Britain’s youngest royal portrait artist: Painting England’s Queen and DNA’s Dean.

2005 CSHL Cultural Series

The CSHL Cultural Series is a tradition in which an eclectic mix of artists, writers, and scientists present lectures, concerts, and exhibits that provide compelling glimpses of how we experience, discover, live in, and make sense of our world. Open to the public, the aim of the Cultural Series is to stimulate, inspire and entertain.
April 19 Nina Federoff, Evan Pugh Professor at Penn State University: Mendel in the Kitchen: Myths & Realities of Genetically Modified Food.
May 16 Don Axinn, author of seven volumes of poetry and two novels: Discussion & Screening of the Film SPIN.
May 17 Rodney Brooks, director of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and the Fujitsu Professor of Computer Science at MIT: Flesh& Machines: How Robots Will Change Us.
May 23 Sherwin Nuland, Clinical Professor of Surgery at the Yale University School of Medicine and Fellow of the university’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies: The Artist Looks at the Doctor: A Millennium of Clinical Observation.
May 31 Cynthia Rosenzweig, Senior Research Scientist at the Columbia University Earth Institute and a professor of environmental sciences at Barnard College: The Heat is On: Present & Future Impacts of Global Warming.
Sept 13 William Li, President, Medical Director and Cofounder, the Angiogenesis Foundation: Canines & Cancer: New Therapies from & for Man’s BestFriend.
Sept 20 Stephen S. Hall, contributing writer and editor at The New York Times Magazine: Short People: Biological, Psychological,and Cultural Considerations.
Sept 27: Diana Reiss, Director of Marine Mammal Research and Conservation at the New York Aquarium of the Wildlife Conservation Society: Exploring the Dolphin Mind.
Oct. 11 Steve Squyres, Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University and the Principal Investigator on the Mars Exploration Rover Project: Life on Mars: Lessons from the Rovers Spirit & Opportunity

2006 CSHL Cultural Series

The CSHL Cultural Series is a tradition in which an eclectic mix of artists, writers, and scientists present lectures, concerts, and exhibits that provide compelling glimpses of how we experience, discover, live in, and make sense of our world. Open to the public, the aim of the Cultural Series is to stimulate, inspire, and entertain.
March 14 Simon Baron-Cohen, Professor of Developmental Psycho-pathology at University of Cambridge and Director of the Autism Research Centre in Cambridge: Seeking the Cause of Autism
April 25 Scott Lowe, HHMI Investigator/Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Recent Progress in Cancer Research.
May 16 Irene Pepperberg, Adjunct Associate Professor,Brandeis University; Research Associate, Harvard University; Leader, The Alex Foundation: In Search of King Solomon’s Ring: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots.
June 13 Matt Ridley,F.R.S.,Visiting Professor, Watson School of Biological Sciences: Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code.
September 12 Jeffrey Friedman, HHMI Investigator/Professor, The Rockefeller University: Leptin and the Biological Basis of Obesity.
September 26 Paul Liam Harrison, artist-in-residence, Human Genome Organization: Pertaining to Origins: Organization of Form and Function.
October 24 Tim Tully, St. Giles Professor of Neuroscience, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Recent Progress in Neuroscience Research.

2007 Science Soirees

Science Soirees cohosted with New York Public Library CSHL and The New York Public Library’s Science, Industry, and Business Library (SIBL) sponsored a series to help nonscientists better understand the scientific concepts fundamental to understanding health and the well-being of society. According to CSHL researcher Partha Mitra, Crick-Clay Professor of Biomathematics and series moderator, “The idea is to expose nonscientists to fundamental scientific concepts that could affect their lives and provide them with a foundation for informed decisions and further exploration.”

February 1 Tim Tully, Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: The Future of Memory: The Biochemistry of Memory and Its Future Enhancement.
March 12 Nicholas D. Schiff, Associate Professor and Associate Attending Neurologist, Weill Medical College of Cornell University: Regaining Consciousness: Recovery from Severe Brain Injury.
April 9 Jeff Dangl, John N. Couch Distinguished Professor of Biology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Genetically Modified Foods: Revolutions in Plant Science and the Controversies They Spur.
May 1 Robert L. Kleinberg, Senior Research Scientist and Scientific Advisor, Schlumberger Research: Energy Sources of the Future: The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Global Warming, and National Security.
June 11 Partha Mitra, Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Learning to Sing: Birdsong, Baby Talk ,and the Origins of Language

2007 Public Lecture Series

March 13 Don Axinn, What You Always Wanted to Know About Poets’ Lives, Their Odd Behavior, and Their Creative Process but Were Afraid to Ask.
May 15 Gregory Hannon, HHMI Investigator and Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Recent Progress in Cancer Research.18Double Helix Medals Dinner participants.
June 21 Portia Iversen, Cofounder of the Cure Autism Now Foundation and the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange: An Evening About Autism.
September 25 Avner Hershlag, Director of North Shore Hospital’s Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis program: Custom-made Babies: Fact or Fiction?
October 23 Robert Malinow, Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Recent Progress in Neuroscience Research

2008 Public Lectures

January 21 Bruce Stillman, CSHL President: The Future of Molecular Medicine at The Secret Science Club public science and art lecture series in Brooklyn, New York.
August 4 Scott Lowe, Professor and HHMI Investigator: The Latest from the Frontlines of Cancer Research at The Secret Science Club public science and art lecture series in Brooklyn, New York.
October 21 WLIW-TV “Healthy Minds” host Dr. Jeffrey Borenstein; Josh Huang, CSHL Professor; Jonathan Sebat, CSHL Assistant Professor; Linda Van Aelst, CSHL Professor; and Anthony Zador, CSHL Professor: Autism: The Latest Genetic and Neuroscience Research and What it Means for Patients and Families.
October 28 Jonathan Sebat, CSHL Assistant Professor and Anil K. Malhotra, Director, Psychiatry Research, Zucker Hillside Hospital and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine: Bipolar Disorder: Cracking the Code.
November 11 CSHL trustee and poet Don Axinn: Travel in My Borrowed Lives.

2009 Public Lectures

March 23—William C. Mobley, M.D., Ph.D.: The Future of Down Syndrome: Improving Memory and Cognition, sponsored by the National Down Syndrome Society and the Down Syndrome Connection of Long Island.
April 27—Josh Dubnau, Ph.D., CSHL Assistant Professor: Memories of a Fly: What a Fly’s Brain Can Teach Us About Our Own.
May 26—Darwin Commemorative Lecture: Sean Carroll, Ph.D., Professor of Molecular Biology, Genetics and Medical Genetics, University of Wisconsin, Madison: Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species.
September 17—Rob Martienssen, Ph.D., CSHL Professor: Designing Bioenergy Crops: Developmental Problems and Genetic Solutions.
October 13—Scott Lowe, Ph.D., CSHL Professor and HHMI Investigator: Cancer Research at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Our Latest Successes and the Road Ahead.
October 22—Senthil Muthuswamy, Ph.D., CSHL Assistant Professor: Breast Cancer Research in 3-D: A New Way of Looking at How Tumors Develop.

2010 Public Lectures

March 21—Roger Reeves, Ph.D.: “Theory to Therapeutics in Mice and Men with Down Syn-drome,” cosponsored by CSHL, the Association for Children with Down Syndrome, the Down Syndrome Connection of Long Island, and the National Down Syndrome Society.
April 26—Thomas R. Cech, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor, University of Colorado-Boulder; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; winner, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1989: “Learning to Teach, Teaching to Learn.”
June 8—Alea A. Mills, Ph.D.,CSHL Associate Professor, with Nikita Anand, Cold Spring Harbor High School, Norah Liang, Patchogue-Med-ford High School, Joshua Weiss, Smithtown High School East: “Next-Generation Cancer Research: Long Island Teens on the Front Line of Discovery.”
June 29—Sydney C. Gary, Ph.D., CSHL Director, research operations; Adam Kepecs, Ph.D., CSHL Assistant Professor; Stephen Dewey, Ph.D., The Feinstein Institute of Medical Research; Edward Nunes, M.D.,Professor of clinical psychiatry, Columbia University: “Addiction: How the Brain Measures Reward and Response,” cosponsored by CSHL, the North Shore–Long Island Jewish Health System, and St. Johnland Nursing Center.
September 26—Steven Allen, M.D., Associate Chief of Hematology, North Shore-LIJ; Johannes Zuber, M.D.,CSHL Clinical Research Fellow; Christopher Vakoc, M.D., Ph.D., CSHL Fellow: “Hitting Leukemia Where It Hurts: Researchers and Physicians Unite to Knock Out Cancer,” cosponsored by CSHL, The Don Monti Memorial Research Foundation, and the North Shore–Long Island Jewish Health System.

2011 Public Lectures

April 4—Paul W. Glimcher, Ph.D., Julius Silver Professor of Neural Science, Economics,and Psychology and Director for the Center for Neuroeconomics, New York University: Neu-roeconomics and the Biological Basis of Decision-Making.
June 22—Fritz Henn, M.D., Ph.D.,CSHL Professor; Husseini Manji, M.D., Global Headof Neuroscience at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, LLC; New Approaches to Treatment of Depression and Bipolar Disorder, cosponsored by CSHL, Brain &Behavior Research Foundation, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, and St. Johnland Nursing Center
July 6—Partha Mitra, Ph.D.,CSHL Professor: Mapping the Mouse Brain, hosted by the Secret Sci-ence Club, Brooklyn, New York.
August 24—Rob Martienssen, Ph.D.,CSHL Professor and HHMI Investigator: Send in the Clones: Superseeds, Superweeds, and Green Energy, hosted by the Secret Science Club, Brooklyn, New York.
October 23—Anne Churchland, Ph.D., CSHL Assistant Professor; Concetta M. Tomaino, D.A.,M.T.-B.C., L.C.A.T., Executive Director/Cofounder, Institute for Music and Neurologic Function; Senior Vice President, Music Therapy Services, Beth Abraham Family of Health Services; Irene Gubrud, D.F.A.; Soprano, Voice, and Meditation Teacher; Steven Finch, M.M.; Conductor, Choral Clinician: Music: How It Can Rewire Your Brain, cosponsored by CSHL and St. Johnland Nursing Center

2012 Public Lectures

March 14–Alea Mills, Ph.D., CSHL Professor: Where Will the Future of Genetic Technology Take Us? Hosted by The Secret Science Club, Brooklyn, New York.
April 16–Brian Skotko, M.D., M.P.P., Board-certified medical geneticist at Children’s Hospital Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, and Dana Farber Cancer Institute; Instructor, Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts: Keeping Children and Adolescents with Down Syndrome Healthy: Medical Updates for Physicians, Parents, and Educators. Co-sponsored by CSHL and Down Syndrome Connection of Long Island.
April 19–David Spector, Ph.D., CSHL Professor and Director of Re-search: The Laboratory @ Your Library:Discussion of “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” Hosted by the Cold Spring Harbor Library, Cold Spring Harbor, New York.
June 26–W. Richard McCombie, Ph.D., Professor, CSHL and Director, CSHL Stanley Institute for Cognitive Genomics; Diane Esposito, Ph.D., Research Investigator/Research Compliance Specialist, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Kenneth Offit, M.D., M.P.H., Chief, Clinical Genetics Service, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Kasmintan Schrader, M.B.B.S., Research Fellow, Cancer Biology and Genetics Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; Peter K. Gregersen, M.D., Center Head, Robert S. Boas Center for Genomics and Human Genetics, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research: Follow Your Genes—Decision Making and Your Personal Genome. Co-sponsored by CSHL, Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, North Shore-LIJ, and St. Johnland Nursing Center.
July 11–David Liittschwager, Photographer, National Geographic and Guest Instructor, DNALC Summer Camp: A World in One Cubic Foot: Portraits of Diversity.
November 18–David Spector, Ph.D., CSHL Professor and Director of Research: Henrietta Lacks and HeLa Cells: Impact on Biological Research and Informed Consent

2013 Public Lectures

February 13–Dr. Richard E. Leakey, Professor, Chair, Turkana Basin Institute; Stony Brook University, Department of Anthropology. Hominid Evolution: How It Has Shaped Human Behavior, Ethics, and Morality. 2012 Lorraine Grace lectureship on societal issues of biomedical research (rescheduled from 2012 due to Hurricane Sandy).
June 25–Josh Dubnau, Ph.D., CSHL Associate Professor; Peter Davies, Ph.D., Head and Scientific Director, Litwin-Zucker Research Center for the Study of Alzheimer’s Disease and Memory Disorders, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research; Jill Goldman, M.S., M.Phil., Certifi ed Genetic Counselor, The Center for Parkinson’s Disease and Other Movement Disorders, Columbia University Medical Center. Untangling Dementia–Latest Research and Tr e a t m e n t s, cosponsored by CSHL; U.S. Trust–Bank of America; North Shore–LIJ; and St. Johnland Nursing Center.
July 16–Zachary Lippman, Ph.D., CSHL Associate Professor. Flower Power and the DNA of Feeding the World, hosted by The Secret Science Club, Brooklyn, New York.
July 17–Kevin J. Mitchell, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurogenetics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. The Miswired Brain—How Altered Brain Development Leads to Mental Disorders.
August 20–Anne Churchland, Ph.D., CSHL Assistant Professor; Swinging synapses and decision making, hosted by The Secret Science Club, Brooklyn, NY.
October 7–Rob Martienssen, Ph.D., CSHL Professor. Oil Palm and the Rainforest: Genome Sequencing for Sustainability. Public lecture, Grace Auditorium

2014 Public Lectures

March 11–Mikala Egeblad, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Nicholas K. Tonks, Ph.D., F.R.S., Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Lora R. Weiselberg, M.D., Clinical Associate Professor, Hofstra, North Shore–LIJ School of Medicine. Lecture: “Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Breast Cancer Research Update.”
March 28–Siddhartha Mukherjee, author, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, 2014 Roy J. Zuckerberg Lecture.
April 8–Craig Garner, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Stan-ford University, Co-director Stanford Center for Research and Treatment of Down syndrome. Lecture: “Developing Therapies to Improve Cognitive Abilities of Individuals with Down Syndrome.”
June 18–Michael Schatz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Simons Center for Quantitative Biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Lecture: “Big Data: How Biological Data Science Can Improve Our Health, Foods, and Energy.”
June 24–Michael Ronemus, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Rebecca Sachs, Ph.D., Staff Psychologist, Fay J. Linder Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities. Lecture: “Understanding Autism Spectrum Disorder: Focus on the Facts.”October 23–Bruce Adolphe, composer and Resident Lecturer and Director of Family Concerts for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; Alexis Gambis, Ph.D.,founder, Science Films. Lecture: “Creativity in Music, Film, and Neuroscience.”

2015 Public Lectures

Special 125th Anniversary Series
May 3—Silvia Earle, Ph.D., National Geographic Explorer in Residence; Saving Our Oceans.
June 17—Michael Wigler, Ph.D., Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Seeking Out Cancer; co-sponsored by CSHL, US Trust—Bank of America, North Shore-LIJ and St. Johnland Nursing Center.
October 4—Harold Varmus, M.D., Weill Cornell Medical College; Nobel Laureate; Former
Director, National Cancer Institute; Biomedical Research: Then and Now.
October 29—David Spector, Ph.D., Professor and Director of Research, Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory; Searching for New Ways to Halt the Progression of Breast Cancer; hosted by Mather
Hospital as part of Paint Port Pink events in Port Jefferson, New York.
November 8—David Tuveson, M.D., Ph.D., CSHL Professor, Lustgarten Foundation Director
of Research; Craig Devoe, M.D., Chief, Hematology and Medical Oncology, The Monter
Care Center, North Shore-LIJ; A Partnership to Defeat Pancreatic Cancer: CSHL & The Lustgarten
Foundation.
November 12—Stephen Shea, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Cocktails & Chromosomes Inaugural event at Finley’s of Greene Street in Huntington, New York.
November 16—Neil Shubin, Ph.D., Robert R. Bensley Professor, Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago; Your Inner Fish.

2016 Public Lectures

March 24: David Micklos, Founder and Executive Director of CSHL’s DNA Learning Center: Asking the Wrong Questions about American Science Education.
May 11: Chris Vakoc, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory:
Cocktails and Chromosomes.
June 26: Jeremy Farrar, M.D., Infectious Disease Expert & Director of the Wellcome Trust: Future of Global Health. This was canceled because of Brexit.
July 6: Nicholas Tonks, Ph.D., F.R.S., Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Drugging an Undruggable Target: A Scientific Journey from Discovery Research to a Clinical Trial. This was cosponsored by CSHL, U.S. Trust–Bank of America, Northwell Health, and St. Johnland Nursing Center.
August 4: Zachary Lippman, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory:
Cocktails and Chromosomes.
September 18: Raymond Dattwyler, M.D., Professor of Microbiology/Immunology and Medicine, School of Medicine of New York Medical College; John Branda, M.D., Associate Director of Clinical Microbiology Laboratories, Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School: Update on Lyme Disease.
October 16: Jon Cohen, Journalist; Staffan Hildebrand, Filmmaker; Victoria Harden, Ph.D., Science historian: HIV/AIDS Research: Its History and Future. This was the public session of the 2016 CSHL/Genentech Center Conference on the History of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology.
October 17: Anthony Zador, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Can We Upload Our Mind to the Cloud?
November 6: Philip R. Reilly, M.D., J.D., Author, geneticist, and former president of the American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics: EUGENICS: A Historical Perspective. This was a 2016 Lorraine Grace lectureship on societal issues of biomedical research.
November 9: Molly Hammell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Cocktails and Chromosomes.

2017 Public Lectures

March 1: Rob Martienssen, Ph.D., Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Cocktails & Chromosomes.
May 24: Adam Kepecs, Ph.D., Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Cocktails & Chromosomes.
June 14: Adam Siepel, Ph.D., Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Chair, Simons Center for Quantitative Biology: Reconstructing Ancient Human History from DNA.
July 25: Douglas Fearon, M.D., Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory; Robert Maki, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Hofstra Northwell School of Medicine and Professor, CSHL: Immunotherapy & Cancer—The Latest Research; cosponsored by CSHL, US Trust, Northwell Health, and St. Johnland Nursing Center.
August 23: Michael Ronemus, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Cocktails & Chromosomes.
October 19: David Jackson, Ph.D., Professor, CSHL; Zachary Lippman, Ph.D., Professor, CSHL; Doreen Ware, Ph.D., Adjunct Associate Professor, CSHL & USDA Agricultural Research Service: The Changing Relationship between Humans and Plants—“It’s Complicated.”
October 25: Gurinder “Mickey” Atwal, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Cocktails & Chromosomes.
November 5: Jonathan Weiner, Pulitzer prize–winning author and Maxwell M. Geffen, Professor of Medical and Scientific Journalism, Columbia Journalism School: LONG FOR THIS WORLD—Writing about Immortality … and Other Controversial Topics in the Science of Life; 2017 Lorraine Grace lectureship on societal issues of biomedical research.

2018 Public Lectures

February 11: Screening and discussion at Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington Co.; Food Evolution. Panelists: David Jackson, Ph.D., professor, CSHL; Zachary Lippman, Ph.D., professor, CSHL; Ullas Pedmale, Ph.D., assistant professor, CSHL; Doreen Ware, Ph.D., molecular biologist, USDA ARS, adjunct associate professor, CSHL; co-presented by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory & Science Advocacy of Long Island.
April 23: Public lecture, Energy from Thin Air: Basic Research to Biofuels. Rob Martienssen, Ph.D., professor, CSHL; Frank O’Keefe, founder & CEO, Infinitree.
May 29: East coast film premiere of Tianqiao & Chrissy Chen Institute’s (TCCI) documentary, followed by Q&A; Minds Wide Open: Unlocking the Potential of the Human Brain. TCCI was the exclusive supporting partner of the 2018 Cold Spring Harbor Symposium.
June 12: Public lecture, Metastasis & Immunity: How Immune Cells Can Help Cancer Spread or Stop It in Its Tracks; co-sponsored by CSHL, US Trust, Northwell Health, and St. Johnland Nursing Center. Mikala Egeblad, Ph.D., associate professor, CSHL; Sylvia Adams, M.D., associate professor, Department of Medicine, director of Clinical Research, Breast Cancer Disease Management Group, NYU Medical Center.
June 20: Cocktails & Chromosomes at Six Harbors Brewing Co. Jessica Tollkuhn, Ph.D., assistant professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
July 31: Screening and discussion at Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington Co.; The Most Unknown. Panelists: Bruce Stillman, Ph.D., professor, president & CEO, CSHL; Scott McLennan, Ph.D., professor, Stony Brook University; Lisa Miller, Ph.D., biophysical chemist, Brookhaven National Laboratory; co-presented by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory & Cinema Arts Centre as a Science on Screen event.
October 5: Play by Keith Burridge. The Message: A Play about the Discovery of Messenger RNA. Panel including Wally Gilbert, Ph.D.; Matthew Meselson, Ph.D.; James D. Watson, Ph.D.
October 23: Public lecture, Genetic Privacy: Friend or Foe? 2018 Lorraine Grace lectureship on societal issues of biomedical research. Yaniv Erlich, Ph.D., chief science officer, MyHeritage, associate professor of Computer Science, Columbia University [leave of absence], adjunct core member, New York Genome Center.
December 5: Cocktails & Chromosomes at Six Harbors Brewing Co. Tatiana Engel, Ph.D., assistant professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.